The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-01
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The Detectives Claim to Know All {


The Detectives Claim to Know All of
Them.
New YORK, April 30.-It is one of the
boasts of the New York detectives that they
are personally acquainted with all the pro
fessional criminals in and near town. The
results of this acquaintance are often pecu-
liar. You are talking with Detective Prior
few feet from the door of the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel and he sees a young dandy halt a
few feet away. Better keep right on" he
says to the dandy; hurry up, now.n 'Qh,
good morning. says the dandy. I'm
only going TO set my watch" That is Kid
Miller, chief of the bunco men, and the de-
tective will not allow him to stop in front
of the hotel You are pushing your way
into Macy's shopping store and little lady
like body is just ahead of you Suddenly
some one steps up to her and roughly orders
her TO Get out at once" Certainly, sir"
she saws very meekly, II was only going to
match piece of silk. She lies. She is d
shoplifter and the man who ordered her out
is detective. a-+
Perhaps you are at the Arion ball with
its 5000 dancers and lockers on. You walk
in the lobby near the entrance for breath
of air and meet Capt. Williams, in uniform,
alert and handsome as an eagle. He darts
from your side and stands in front of q
stout, elderly, well-dressed gentleman so as
to oppose his progress. "What do you
mean by coming here?' he says. The man
answers boldly: my wife is here and
have come to take her home.n "That'l do
now" says the Captain; there's the door;
getr' And, as Artemus Ward usM to say,
che gets" OF course the man is a pick
pocket
81 would like to be in Wall street fifteen
minutes tomorrow, Inspector says the
burglar. Il want to see about a personal
NATTER
81 will have one of my corps meet you
at Broad and Wall at noon, sharp" says the
Inspector
The burglar thanked the official, for it is
favor to such man even to be allowed to
go to the money centre with detective at
his shoulder all the time he is there To go
without this permission and escort means q
certainty of being arrested and locked up.
The only knervn crooks that get into Wall
street under Byrnes are men in business
there whose offenses he cannot punish; the
only others are the employees who default
now and then.
A neatly dressed, rather substantial look
ing man of middle age sends in his card to
Inspector ByTnes at Police headquarters.
The name on the card is that OF a burglar
better known by an alias, say Red Leary,
for instance ''Well, what do you want h
Mr. Byrnes asks gruiily. He has an especial
tone for men of that class. and it is a tone
that fOrbids familiarity and suggests mas
terry, very different tone from the quiet
and easy one he has for his friends.
This is not the only part Of town that
shady characters are excluded from 1t has
always been favorite method with Capt.
Williams to say to rascals of various sorts
"If you ever put your foot in my precinct
I'll send you up.n This may not be accord
ing to law, but it's according to fact, and
they give that precinct wide berth. Pick
pockets like the Allen brothers, who are
well known, have q hard time of it in New
York. No matter how much they may
want to see play or a ball game or attend
a meeting there is apt to be some one to
stop them at the entrance with fright
about face, now You can't get in here"
have seen pickpocket hustled along like a
bit of down in the wind from one block to
another, while apparently an innocent
spectator of q street parade.
And yet, on the other hand, they elude
observation very often. The hostiles are
not always on bad terms, either. You will
sometimes see burglar and detective NOD
pleasantly as they pass each other, and even
stop for moments chat Perhaps the de
tective may have once sent the thief up foI
q term of years, but the thief is even the
more proud of the acquaintance on that ac
count, and likes to ask the officer if it was
not "a good jobn he went to jail for. A re
ply in the atiirmativeis like meat and strong
drink to a criminal JULIEN RALPH.